Category: Settled Space

  • As much hill ahead as behind on WARPAINT #WABWM

    Have paid bills. Have cleaned out topic list. Started out the morning with an awful headache, but Tylenol and aspirin have kicked in so I’m ready. Am on page 164 of the manuscript, with a whole lotta steep hill ahead of me today. Objective? As much as I can manage.

  • WARPAINT type-in: Remembering “slow” is relative #WABWM

    9:05 AM Have been working since 7:30 AM. Had to do student support first. Yesterday I cleared over 10,000 words of the type-in (two chapters) including adding 3693 new words to the story. Most of those new words were NOT in the type-in. The story is getting better and tighter as I do this—but again,…

  • WARPAINT type-in is going slo-o-o-o-o-owly #WABWM

    7:32 AM So. Worked the weekend. Got two—count ’em—two chapters of the book typed in, and that was working hard. I have unholy amounts of hand-written text through about page 270 (out of 394) so it’s entirely possible that one chapter a day is going to be my type-in pace for about the next 6-8…

  • Looking for big WARPAINT numbers today #WABWM

    9:58 AM Was up until about 3 AM working on “related stuff” for the WARPAINT launch. Back in the seat this morning, going to see how much of the type-in I can get through. I’m still in the middle section where I essentially threw out one out of every two pages, and wrote one or…

  • Do you own and play Minecraft? Want my spaceship models?

    Yes, I’m a geek. Using Minecraft, I built life-sized walkthrough models of the spaceships I write about in Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood and Warpaint from the schematics I drew. I did it to keep myself from making stupid location mistakes in the stories. (And let’s be real…it was fun. And when I was a kid,…

  • Significant progress on the WARPAINT write-in #WABWM

    10:24 AM Had to catch up on Student Support and bills before I started today, so I’m a bit late getting here. Got a surprising amount done yesterday in SPITE of the short day. Am well into the new material now, and still making changes as I type things in. Smoothing and adding depth to…

  • Army had a half-day… #WABWM

    9:27 AM Today is a family holiday, so on my schedule I have the day off. However, I have a few hours to myself starting now, and I’ll get as much of the write-in done as I can in the time I have. Yesterday, I didn’t quite make it through the read-through of the nine…

  • It’s time for TYPE-IN! (frikkin’ FINALLY…) #WABWM

    8:29 AM Write-in is DONE! On to TYPE-IN! It took me 45 minutes just to get my documents and desk set up. Scrivener revision doc, write-in pages, technical schematics, notebook with tagnotes and fixes, copies of published HTCB and the WARPAINT first draft on the Kindle so I can do quick word searches, pens, index…

  • Still writing the new scene, delay now official #WABWM

    8:01 AM Yesterday was completely devoured by handwritten pages. Odds are good that today will be as well. The scene I’m writing is essential to rounding out the story. Can’t skimp, can’t hurry. I’m frustrated by the time it’s taking. But I’ll get it done, and get the book done. We are, at this point,…

  • Looking at a delay in the publication of WARPAINT #WABWM

    7:51 AM Have actually been working for a while, so my start time was probably 7:30 AM. I have, in theory, 18 pages left on the write-in. Theory, however, ignores the fact that I realize I dropped two threads, and I’m going to have to write a couple of scenelets, or interstitials, or maybe even…